The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 21F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... appears , from the hand- writing and the metre , to be more ancient than Gower . The reader will find an extract from it at the end of the play . There is also an ancient romance on this subject , called Kyng Appolyn of Thyre ...
... appears , from the hand- writing and the metre , to be more ancient than Gower . The reader will find an extract from it at the end of the play . There is also an ancient romance on this subject , called Kyng Appolyn of Thyre ...
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... appear in print till the follow- ing year , and then it was published not by Blount , but by Henry Gosson ; who had probably anticipated the other , by getting a hasty transcript from a playhouse copy . There is , I believe , no play of ...
... appear in print till the follow- ing year , and then it was published not by Blount , but by Henry Gosson ; who had probably anticipated the other , by getting a hasty transcript from a playhouse copy . There is , I believe , no play of ...
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... appears in Belle - forest's collection , ( vol . vii . p . 113 , et seq . ) has yet a further claim to our notice , as it had the honour ( p . 148-9 ) of furnishing Dryden with the outline of his Alexdander's Feast . Langbaine , & c ...
... appears in Belle - forest's collection , ( vol . vii . p . 113 , et seq . ) has yet a further claim to our notice , as it had the honour ( p . 148-9 ) of furnishing Dryden with the outline of his Alexdander's Feast . Langbaine , & c ...
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... appear improbable to the reader who recollects that in the fourth scene of the first Act of The Third Part of King Henry VI . instead of " tigers of Hir- cania , " the players have given us- - " tigers of Arcadia . " In- stead of " an ...
... appear improbable to the reader who recollects that in the fourth scene of the first Act of The Third Part of King Henry VI . instead of " tigers of Hir- cania , " the players have given us- - " tigers of Arcadia . " In- stead of " an ...
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... appears to have consisted . Again , old copy : " This Antioch then , Antiochus the great " Built up ; this city , for his chiefest seat . " I suppose the original lines were these , and as such have printed them : " This city then ...
... appears to have consisted . Again , old copy : " This Antioch then , Antiochus the great " Built up ; this city , for his chiefest seat . " I suppose the original lines were these , and as such have printed them : " This city then ...
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Page 268 - Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them then in being merciful : Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge, Thrice-noble Titus, spare my first-born son.
Page 170 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
Page 102 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 51 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 136 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 198 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed : but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 139 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...